My wife, my best friend, and I, all visited Curacao for the first time in May and stayed nine days on a Dive vacation. All three of us are avid divers and have dove all over the Caribbean on dive trips. We were very excited to come and experience the diving in Curacao. We mainly used Ocean Encounters for our... More

Older guy in shop very out of line with female clientele. Told my wife "Have your husband talk to me and go back to sun tanning we don't give refunds", and muttered "stupid americans" under his breath as she was leaving Plenty of other places. Really poor service. More

The worst shop I have ever used. I am just back and I can honestly say don't use this shop. Try TwinDivers and the Dive Bus, they were great. The shops owner will insist you sign up for at least 2 boat dives if you rent gear to dive off of shore. He stated it is a package and would... More

I can say that I have pretty much dive the globe, but diving with Ocean Encounters was a true experience. Do you enjoy diving in a group of 12 divers? Do you enjoy diving within a group of different skilled divers and where dive master has considerable less diving experience that you do? Do you enjoy discovering Curacao underwater by... More

Ocean Encounters is a very professionally run operation. Staff is friendly and well trained. Boats are well equipped and on time. Most of the staff has changed since we were there 2 years ago. The divemasters are new and inexperienced. As experienced divers, we expect 60 minute dives. But the dive profiles were 60ft/50min and 50ft/50min. And the 50 minutes... More

My son had the PADI basic course beginning of April at Ocean Encounters branch at Hyatt Regency. I followed it closely and participate as a snorkeler to diving trips. I was really very pleased of the quality of teh PADI course, all arrangements and especially the attitude of staff. George/Jorge (very experienced trainer, still enthusiastic about new pupils, strict and... More

Great facility, nice staff BUT!..unless you were from Breezes or Lions Dive, your group does not matter. We were staying @ the Royal Sea Aquarium directly accross from them. The Ocean Encounter staff actually relished telling you that all the dives were full! They actually were all excited to tell you that you could not dive on your vaction! When... More

My husband dove with these folks - from the site at Lions - for a week. Very professional, clean, water and fruit offered on the boats, your own combination locker in the shop. Willing to be flexible about us arriving very late the nite before and still able to dive the next morning. The only oddity was that they made... More

Three of us came to Curacao to complete our open water dives and finish our certification. We had a fourth who was already certified. Our dives were set up in advance with Ocean Encounters (they were very accommodating with our schedules). The instruction (Nick Rogers) and facilities were top notch. The diving was superb. Couldn't think of a better way... More